Omega Software Solutions
Survivor defense

Necrowave

Every so often the old Spire rings a bad note, and everything in the Hollow Reach that ever held a grudge gets up to answer it. Nobody agrees whose job it is. You turn up anyway, lay walls and turrets across the field while it is still quiet, and then the timer runs out and you fight inside what you built. You can do all of that here, in this tab.

Portrait, one thumb Build, then hold it Free
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Worth knowing before you press it: this is a much bigger download than our other browser games, so the first load is not instant.

Necrowave title card: a cartoon skull with gold teeth on a purple background, the word NECROWAVE beside it, and the line Weapons fire themselves. You just move.

Two halves, one run

Five waves per field. Between them the ground goes quiet, a clock starts, and you spend Scrap by the cell: a Timber Palisade for ten, a Bolt Thrower behind it, a Sally Gate you can walk through and the horde cannot, a Frost Pylon for the ones that get past it. Everything refunds half. DEMOLISH takes back what you regret.

Build well and the wave arrives single file down a corridor lined with bolt throwers. Build badly and it arrives all at once, and you find out.

Then the fighting half, and your hands barely do anything in it. Weapons swing, throw and burn on their own cooldowns and pick their own targets, so nothing in this game is a test of your aim. You move. You dash through a gap that is closing. When you level, three cards come up and you take one.

Which leaves the thinking to happen twice a wave. Which build, and which ground. There is no health bar either: the meter across the top says INFECTION, it fills every time something reaches you, and it empties again on its own if nothing does for a while.

You never aim and you never fire

Necrowave controls
Move A stick under your thumb, bottom right. Everything you carry keeps swinging while you walk, so walking is most of the fight.
Dash The boot at the bottom left, with its charges counted on it. Bjorn’s dash is a lunge that knocks them back. Not everyone’s is.
Build Pick a wall or a turret off the tray and paint it onto the grid, cell by cell. The price sits on the tile, and anything you cannot afford is greyed out.
Ready The green button ends the build phase early and pays you Scrap for the seconds you handed back. It tells you how much before you press it.
Level up Three cards, one pick, and the game stops while you decide.
Stop Anywhere. The run saves itself mid-wave and comes back on the same wave, with the same walls standing and the same Scrap in your pocket.

Short sittings, and cartoon-macabre rather than grim. A zombie here is a worried green man with a bandaged head.

Portrait, on a phone or in a browser tab. At a desk the mouse does the thumb’s job.

Seventeen things to put on the ground, and one of them is a gate

  • Eight walls and nine turrets

    From a ten-Scrap Timber Palisade up through the Cairn Wall to a Sally Gate you can walk through and the horde cannot, and behind whichever of those you chose, anything from a Bolt Thrower to Grave-Breaker’s Anvil. You are not decorating. You are deciding where the dead will be made to walk.

  • Four regulars, and none of them are the same person

    Bjorn Grave-Breaker treats the end of the world like a bar fight he has not yet lost. Sera the Unyielding will apologise to a zombie for the inconvenience of killing it. Rook Fletcher is here for the coin. He will tell you so twice. Ashen Pyrewood calls it a fascinating case study and takes notes while on fire. Each opens with a different weapon and a different dash, and the numbers underneath them differ enough that you will have noticed by the second wave.

  • Old Moss asks no questions

    He turns up between runs with a cart and a ledger, and nineteen permanent upgrades priced in the gold a run banks, win or lose. Bone Plating, 90 gold: “Dented already. Saves you the trouble.”

  • The fifth wave brings up whatever is buried there

    Grubnash the Goblin King, furious you are stealing his dead. Sir Mordraven appointed himself Master of the Wave and would like to give a speech about it, which he will be doing at some length whether or not anybody has agreed to listen. Sir Emberos wants a proper duel. He is not getting one.

  • A bus stop is a fine place to stop fighting

    It saves mid-horde and picks up exactly where it was.

  • It plays the way you need it to

    Screen shake on a slider, all the way to off. Reduced flashing. Damage numbers off by default. Haptics with a strength setting, or none at all. An extra safe-area inset for phones with awkward corners.

Screenshots

The build phase in Hollow Graveyard: a green field on a grid with timber and stone walls part-laid across it, two bolt throwers flanking the player, 280 Scrap in hand, 43 seconds left, and a tray of buildables along the bottom priced from Timber Palisade at 10 to Frost Pylon at 80
Timber Palisade, ten. Frost Pylon, eighty. The clock is the other currency.
Wave 2 under way at night: a crowd of green zombies pressed against the player inside a walled pocket, two turrets firing from behind the wall, 48 seconds on the clock and 302 Scrap in the corner
The wall did its job. That is what the far side of it looks like.
The SELECT CHARACTER screen: Ashen Pyrewood, Bjorn Grave-Breaker, Rook Fletcher and Sera the Unyielding in a grid with their starting weapons, and Bjorn selected with his health, speed, armor and magnet bars below
Bjorn’s pitch, in his own words. “Come on then, all of you at once. I’ve got somewhere to be by supper!”
The SELECT ARENA screen: map thumbnails for Hollow Graveyard, The Endless Wastes, The Rockfall, The Rustfields and Widow's Orchard, each with its boss named, and a CURSE counter set to zero above the START RUN button
Hollow Graveyard: open churchyard, nothing to hide behind. CURSE is sitting at zero because you left it there.
Old Moss's store: stone cards for Banish Slot, Bone Plating, Foreman's Clock and Grave Robber's Stride, each with a level, a price in gold and a line of Old Moss's own commentary, with a BUY button under it
Foreman’s Clock: “It runs slow. That is the feature.”
The Necrowave title screen: the logo dripping green over a dark field, Bjorn holding a cleaver overhead, and PLAY, ENDLESS, SHOP, ACHIEVEMENTS and OPTIONS buttons stacked below him
PLAY, SHOP, OPTIONS. ENDLESS is greyed out until somebody earns it.

Where to play

Web

The whole game, in the tab, free. Give the first load a while to arrive. After that there is nothing to install and nothing to sign into, and the copy hosted here requests no advertising.

Play now

Android

The build is finished and there is no listing to put it on yet. When it does ship it will be free to play and ad-supported, with optional paid unlocks — one of which removes the advertising. What the ad software reads is set out in our Privacy Policy.

Google Play: coming soon

Fact sheet

Necrowave fact sheet
TitleNecrowave
DeveloperOmega Software Solutions
GenreSurvivor defense: build between waves, fight inside what you built
PlatformsWeb browser (desktop and mobile); Android, finished but not yet listed
PriceFree in the browser. Android pricing not announced.
MonetisationThe copy hosted here requests no ad. The Android release is free to play and ad-supported: that build carries the AppLovin MAX ad software, and optional paid unlocks are planned, one of which removes advertising. Details in our Privacy Policy.
Players1
InputTouch or mouse, one thumb’s worth. Portrait only.
StatusPlayable now in the browser. Android build finished, not yet listed on any store.
Saved dataThe run, the gold and what you bought from Old Moss, held on the device you played it on.
PressPress kit · omegasolutionsbusiness@gmail.com

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